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D. E. CHANDLER & J. C. WILLIAMS.

. TWO WHEELED VEHICLE.

No. 281,972. Patented July 24 lnxrenfors;

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DAvID E. oIIANDLEE AND JAY o. WILLIAMS, OF AUEoEA, ILLINOIS, AS-

SIGNORS OF oNE-THIED TO oIIARLEs HOWARD, OF SAME PLACE.

TWO-WHEELED VEHICLE.

srEcIFIcA'rIoN forming part of Letters Patent No. 281,972, dated July 24, 1883.

Application filed June 20, 1888. (No model.)

.Zo all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, DAvID E. CHANDLER and JAY O. \VILLIAMS, citizens of the United States, residing at Aurora, in the county of Kane and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Two-Vheeled Vehicles, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to that class of twowheeled vehicles known as driving-carts,

IO road-carts, dog-carts, and sulkies.

The object of our present improvements is to provide means for maintaining the cart-body almost in a state of equilibrium by causing the body to rock upon a pivoted connection with I 5 the springs and neutralizing said rocking motion, while at the same time checking lateral thrusts or jerks. These results we obtain by hanging the body between the springs upon a rock-rod or equivalent device having its bearings in boxes upon the tops of the springs, over the axle, and by providing a central plate rigidly fastened to the cross-bar of the shafts, and extending back under the body through a loop and terminating shortly back of said loop in a free end, and without fasten ing other than said loop, which confines it.

The improvements are specified in the claim and the construction illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which-- 0 Figure 1 represents a bottom view of a twowheeled vehicle embracing our improvements; Fig. 2, a longitudinal vertical section, and Fig. 3 a detail, like letters indicating like parts.

3 5 A is the body; 13, the wheels; (J, the thills; D, the axle; E, side elliptic springs, and F the cross-bar of the thills or shafts. These are the parts common to the ordinary drivingcart.

1,0 The thills C are rigidly secured to the axle, and the body A is hinged between the springs E by means of a rod, G, running through the body A, beneath, from one side spring to the other. This rod is secured to the body either,

as shown in stay-posts b or in any suitable manner; or it may, when the body is desired to hang high, be properly secured beneath it, and it has its bearings in boxes 0, firmly secured centrally on the top of the springs; but the body need not necessarily be hung by a rod, as brackets may project from the body, having cylindrical arm ends to enter the boxes 011 the springs; or the body may be hung between the springs, so as to have a pivot-bearing therein, in any suitable manner. Beneath the front part of the body is a loop or staple,

d, suitably secured, which is adapted to receive a strap or plate spring, I, which is clipped or bolted to the crossbar F, or otherwise rigidly fastened at on to said crossbar, and extends back under the body through said loop or staple and terminates shortly back of said loop in a free end, It, without fastening other than its confinement by said loop. It prevents the pivoted body from tipping backward or forward, and works up and down with the main or side springs. The body being upon a pivot, the shafts will work up and down, while the spring will slide back and forward under the body, and thus neutral- 7o ize the horse-jog.

We claim In a two-wheeled vehicle, the body A, pivotally hung between the side springs, and provided 011 its bottom with a loop, d, in eombination with a centrally-arranged supporting plate-spring, I, rigidly fastened at one end to the cross-bar F, and its other end being free and passing through said loop and the side springs, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto setour hands in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

DAVID E. CHANDLER. JAY O. IVILLIAMS.

Witnesses:

CHRISTOPHER D. MowREY, GEo. F. ALLEN. 

